Workshops

Mark offers seven Natural Strategy workshops – three for individuals, three for collectives, and one for both – each providing training in the Natural Strategy method and detailed guidance on its application within the workshop’s area of focus.

All of Mark’s workshops are insight and action-oriented, and aimed at unlocking new natural progress in our lives or groups. The workshops include in-depth overviews of the Natural Strategy method, exploration of relevant self-assessment tools and strategy techniques, personal or group analysis of available progressive opportunities, and guided development of an initial Natural Strategy plan for each individual participant or group.

In practice, this workshop format provides an essential balance between adequate structure and flexibility, creates a supportive and yet challenging or progressive learning environment, provides essential skill development, and equips each participant to use the Natural Strategy method on their own or with others, both within the workshop’s scope and more broadly.

Below are summaries of Mark’s seven Natural Strategy workshops, as well as information on workshop scheduling:

#1: OUR NATURAL HEALTH

Description: Mark’s Natural Health workshop for individuals explores key ideas from the science of our natural history and its critical lessons for physical fitness and psychological health today. The workshop is designed for people wishing to explore new science-based perspectives on our natural health and personal vitality, as well as practical and strategic opportunities to optimize our modern happiness, adaptivity, and quality of life. The workshop provides in-depth discussions of four science-based health techniques from Mark’s HumanaNatura natural health system – Natural Eating, Natural Exercise, Natural Living, and Natural Communities – along with selected topics from modern personal health science chosen for client relevance. The workshop includes the guided design of an individualized Natural Strategy plan for improved natural health and quality of life by each client, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Review of Seven Keys Intro & Chapter OneDuration: 2-3 days

#2: OUR NATURAL SELF

Description: Mark’s Natural Self workshop for individuals examines crucial science related to our human minds and its essential lessons for healthy, adaptive, and fulfilling personal life today. The workshop is intended for people seeking to better understand the ways in which our human selves and brains naturally function, how this functioning influences the quality of our daily choices and larger life patterns, and techniques available to improve the ways we act, learn, and live. The workshop incorporates a number of practical and repeatable self-awareness exercises. Each are designed to surface our current modes of personal thinking, feeling, perception, and action – helping us examine how we function today, and why we live the way we do, against our many modern alternatives. The workshop includes the guided design of an individualized Natural Strategy plan for improved natural adaptiveness and quality of life by each client, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Review of Seven Keys Intro & Chapter TwoDuration: 2-3 days

#3: OUR NATURAL CENTER

Description: Mark’s Natural Center workshop for individuals explores our universal potential for powerful, intentional, and beneficial centerings amidst daily life. The workshop builds on key science-based findings and techniques from the Natural Self workshop, and seeks to increase our capacity and opportunities for adaptive and health-increasing action. The workshop is designed for people seeking to broaden their self-awareness and improve their ability to consciously and beneficially choose the way they function, situationally and across the larger course of our lives. The workshop uses a number of practical exercises designed to explore and reveal our natural center of optimal action, helps participants access six specific natural centerings available to us amidst modern daily life, and sets the stage for new progressive choice and action in our lives. The workshop includes the guided design of an individualized Natural Strategy plan for improved natural adaptiveness and quality of life by each client, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Review of Seven Keys Intro & Chapter ThreeDuration: 2-3 days

#4: THE NATURAL ORGANIZATION

Description: Mark’s Natural Organization workshop for groups and organizations explores essential ideas from the science of natural systems and their critical lessons for healthy, vital, and adaptive organizations and groups today. The workshop is designed for leadership and strategy teams wishing to improve their ability to assess the health or quality of organizational and departmental functioning, explore new perspectives on their organization and its potential, derive greater benefit from strategy and planning practices, and increase their organization’s immediate and longer-term options for improved functioning and value creation. The workshop includes discussions of the science of naturally progressive systems, exploration of relevant strategy tools drawn from modern management science, analysis of each client’s market and value-delivery ecosystem, and consideration of alternatives and relevant best practices. The workshop concludes with the guided design of a preliminary 1-3 year Natural Strategy plan for improved organizational health and vitality, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Review of Seven Keys Intro & Chapter FourDuration: 2-3 days

#5: THE NATURAL COMMUNITY

Description: Mark’s Natural Community workshop for communities begins with the science of healthy human communities, in nature and today, and explores critical lessons for progressive functioning, well-being, and sustainability in communities and community networks of all kinds. The workshop is designed for community and regional leaders wishing to improve their ability to assess the health or quality of community and inter-community functioning, explore new perspectives on needed community priorities and features, derive greater benefit from strategy and planning practices, and increase their options to foster more adaptive, vital, and sustainable conditions in their community or region. The workshop includes in-depth discussions of the science of healthy modern communities, detailed analysis of each client’s community environment and progressive potential, and exploration of selected strategy tools drawn from the fields of public policy, public health, and management science. The workshop concludes with the guided design of a preliminary 1-3 year Natural Strategy plan for improved community or regional health and vitality, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Review of Seven Keys Intro & Chapter FiveDuration: 2-3 days

#6: THE NATURAL SOCIETY

Description: Mark’s Natural Society workshop for societal groups and institutions begins with the science of healthy human social groups, in nature and today, and its essential lessons for progressive and adaptive modern societies and their governing institutions. The workshop is designed for leadership teams from municipal, state, provincial, and national governments, as well as international governing bodies, wishing to improve their ability to assess the health or quality of societal and institutional functioning, explore new perspectives on needed societal and governmental priorities and features, derive greater benefit from strategy and planning practices, and increase their options to foster more adaptive, vital, and sustainable conditions for their citizens. The workshop includes in-depth discussions of the science of healthy modern societies, detailed analysis of each client’s social or institutional environment and progressive potential, and exploration of selected strategy tools drawn from the fields of public policy, public health, and management science. The workshop concludes with the guided design of a preliminary 1-3 year Natural Strategy plan for improved societal or institutional health and vitality, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Review of Seven Keys Intro & Chapter SixDuration: 2-3 days

#7: OUR NATURAL SPIRIT

Description: Mark’s Natural Spirit workshop is designed for individuals and groups who have taken at least one other Natural Strategy workshop and want to further develop their capacity for adaptive and progressive action. As its name suggests, the workshop begins with essential ideas from the science of our evolved human spirits – our instincts, drives, and emotions – and considers their crucial lessons for progressively spirited, intelligent, and transformative life today. The workshop is ideal for people and groups who have significantly progressed in developing their natural systems understanding and adaptive skills from earlier Natural Strategy workshops, and seek added opportunities for new natural health, adaptiveness, and vibrancy. The workshop includes in-depth discussions of naturally animated or spirited life, in and out of our modern human context, including its natural variations and results. The workshop uses specific exercises to explore our personal or group’s spiritual functioning, encourage breakthroughs to new levels of self or group spiritual awareness, and identify opportunities for functioning that is likely to be at once more spirited, intelligent, compelling, and progressive. The workshop concludes with a preliminary re-design of each client’s Natural Strategy plan for progressive natural health and quality of functioning, using ideas and learnings from the workshop.Prerequisites: Any Prior Workshop, Review of Seven Keys Chapter SevenDuration: 2-3 days

For more information on Mark’s Natural Strategy training workshops, please see Scheduling Events or contact us at marklundegren.com@gmail.com.